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title: Identify the correct rendering of "I do not have a sister". — My family · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the correct rendering of "I do not have a sister". Exam question 2 of lesson 14 «My family» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 2 · My family

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Identify the correct rendering of "I do not have a sister".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** identify, not have · **To what, where:** correct rendering, sister

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 14 «My family» of the French course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/14-my-family/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:14-my-family:e2:1
# text = Identify the correct rendering of "I do not have a sister".
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct rendering |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rendering=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | a sister |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Je n'ai pas de sœur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:14-my-family:e2:o1:1
# text = Je n'ai pas de sœur
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	sœur	sœur	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Je n'ai pas une sœur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:14-my-family:e2:o2:1
# text = Je n'ai pas une sœur
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	une	une	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	sœur	sœur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Je ne suis pas sœur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:14-my-family:e2:o3:1
# text = Je ne suis pas sœur
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
2	ne	ne	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	suis	suis	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	sœur	sœur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Je n'ai sœur pas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:14-my-family:e2:o4:1
# text = Je n'ai sœur pas
1	Je	Je	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	n'ai	n'ai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	sœur	sœur	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	pas	pas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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